Although ZTD is a much simpler system than GTD, the basics are the same. Zenhabits has a very long list of GTD resources that will be valuable to anyone using the original GTD system or one of its variants. You can also adapt the tips and tricks mentioned in the resources to ZTD or your own customized productivity system.

Merlin Mann’s “Vision track” presentation at Macworld Conference 2008 in San Francisco (video and slides). His advice could save you wasted time, effort and money. In his talk, he mentions that not only do we fragment our own attention, we often don't set any sort of barrier to entry for other people, giving them free reign to further fragment our attention.

Being organized is a significant element of success for any businessperson. With technology rapidly advancing, sound recorders are becoming very popular, thus eliminating the need for physical note taking. It can, however, be quite beneficial to take notes with the right notepad. By taking notes, you ensure that your thoughts and to-do lists are well organized, making it easier to keep up with a hectic schedule.

Delegation has received a terrible reputation. Many people feel that if they delegate a task, be it personal or professional, to someone else then they have simply side-stepped doing the task themselves. Delegating a task to someone in order to make time for more important things is actually a positive experience, despite the negative reputation.

Recently I posted my new twist on the excellent GTD system, Zen To Done (ZTD): The Ultimate Simple Productivity System. This is the third in a series of posts exploring each of the 10 Habits.

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Habit: set MITs for week, day.

Recently I posted my new twist on the excellent GTD system, Zen To Done (ZTD): The Ultimate Simple Productivity System. This is the first in a series of posts exploring each of the 10 Habits.

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Habit: ubiquitous capture.

Time management is a very important aspect in getting things done on a daily basis. Maybe even more important is the aspect of productive creativity. Particularly if your interests revolve around creative choices such as writing or the arts, being productive is highly important. Keeping your productive creativity juices flowing may seem like an un-accomplishable task, but it can be done. You simply need a few strategic methods for maintaining your creativity level so that you can accomplish your productivity goals.

LOK Yek Soon has created a GTD Template for Freemind.

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Recently I posted my new twist on the excellent GTD system, Zen To Done (ZTD): The Ultimate Simple Productivity System. This is the second in a series of posts exploring each of the 10 Habits.

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Habit: make quick decisions on things in your inbox, do not put them off.

“It’s about the habits and the doing, not the system or the tools.”

I am a huge fan of GTD, as you probably know by now. It’s one of the best productivity systems ever invented. However, it’s not without its flaws, and because of that, I have a new productivity system for you: Zen To Done (ZTD).

Reprinted here by permission of author Leo Babauta from Zenhabits.

Recently I posted my new twist on the excellent GTD system, Zen To Done (ZTD): The Ultimate Simple Productivity System. An essential part of ZTD is the forming of the 10 Habits, one at a time. This post will explore why and how to do that.

One of the revelations of GTD is the very simple (and in retrospect, very obvious) mandate to write everything down. Capture all your thoughts on paper (or digitally) — don’t let them float around in your head, where they will surface at inappropriate times, stress you out and be forgotten when they are needed. Have an idea? Write it down, right now, before you forget. Thought of an errand you need to do? Capture that as well. Just remembered something for your grocery list? You know what to do.

Recently I posted my new twist on the excellent GTD system, Zen To Done (ZTD): The Ultimate Simple Productivity System. However, reader Mark Siegal said that the system seems to complex. So I now present the minimalist version of ZTD — a way to be productive without all the fuss.

The Four Habits